{"product_id":"book-7338","title":"Calling Me Home","description":" \u003cp\u003eA soaring debut interweaving the story of a heartbreaking, forbidden love in 1930s Kentucky with an unlikely modern-day friendship\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllister has a favor to ask her hairdresser, Dorrie Curtis. It's a big one. Isabelle wants Dorrie, a black single mother in her thirties, to drop everything and drive her from her home in Arlington, Texas, to a funeral in Cincinnati-with no clear explanation why-tomorrow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDorrie, fleeing problems of her own and curious whether she can unlock the secrets of Isabelle's guarded past, scarcely hesitates before agreeing, not knowing it will be a journey that changes both their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the years, Dorrie and Isabelle have developed more than just a business relationship: they are friends. But Dorrie, fretting over the new man in her life and her teenage son's irresponsible choices, still wonders why Isabelle chose her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsabelle confesses that, as a willful teen in 1930s Kentucky, she fell deeply in love with Robert Prewitt, a would-be doctor and the black son of her family's housekeeper-in a town where blacks weren't allowed after dark. The tale of their forbidden relationship and its tragic consequences makes it clear Dorrie and Isabelle are headed for a gathering of the utmost importance and that the history of Isabelle's first and greatest love just might help Dorrie find her own way.\u003cspan rel=\"pastemarkerend\" id=\"pastemarkerend7768\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49305167266096,"sku":"BD7338","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49305167331632,"sku":"ZE7338","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49305167397168,"sku":"ZM7338","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/7338-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775714857","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-7338","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}